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Today’s Quick-Write:What animal would best represent
your personality? List 3 reasons.(What type of animal/bird best describes you?)
North SeniorAcademy
Diverse Urban Scholars
Urban Literacy
Targets:
I can determine the Gist of a text
I can find the SignificantMoments of a text
1. Analyze commercial text 2. Share Out a few Quick-Writes3. New Author4. Analyze video for Gist/Significant Moments5. Period 4 - Pretest
Today's Agenda:
• Metaphor• How is metaphor used to create a persuasive
or powerful text?
Analyze Commercial Text
On a trip to Chicago in 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked:
“So often in these past two years I have had to watch my dream transformed into a nightmare . . . I have felt my dream falter as I have traveled through the rat-infested slums of our big city ghettos and watched our jobless and hopeless poor sweltering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society.”
Richard Wright
Native Son
New Author . . .
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
Dutchman
Amiri Baraka
• Born Leroi Jones (1934)• African American author &
political activist• founder of the
"Black Arts Movement“ – 1960s• Dutchman 1964
• find the gist of the text• find the significant moments• interpret the author’s ideas• analyze the author’s methods
T-Chart Text Analysis:Reading, Viewing, Listening
in order to . . .
Text Title (plus scene number or section)Gist Statement:
• SigMo (quote/event) • Reason
Meaning (surface & “between the lines”):
Methods:
Formal Letter Writing Pre-Test
Compose a formal letter to Principal Branch
respectfully expressing your main hopes, dreams or desires
for North Senior Academy.